I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

He uses our past to positively affect our present and secure our future.

Be joyful and experience pleasurable lives.

Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

I was a very shy child.

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

Flowers are an education in a vase.

I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.